Theater playbill for Henrietta Chanfrau in "Was She Right a Question for Women" at the National Theater, Washington, September 20, 1875
Contributors: Tayleure, Clifton W., -1891; National Theater (Washington, D.C. : 1873-1885); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Washington Chronicle Print, 914 Penna. Ave.
Published: 1875
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Other titles: Was she right, a question for women; Henrietta Chanfrau
Description: National Theater, John T. Ford, Lessee, H. Clay Ford, manager, S.B. Duffield, stage manager, S.G. Kinsley, Treasurer, Fred Prosperi, Leader of Orchestra. Mr. Ford respectfully announces the Opening of the National Theater under his management on Monday evening, September 20, 1875, when the accomplished society artiste Henrietta Chanfrau (Mrs. F.S.,) whose popularity among the ladies of the land is a amerited recognition of her surpassing eloquence as an interpreter of beautiful womanhood. Supported by C.W. Tayleure's Varieties Theater Company, of New Orleans, composed of artists whose performances have heretofore graced the stage of Wallack's, Roger's and other leading theatres of New York and Boston, and who will at once be recognized as among the ablest and best reputed of their profession. The great emotional drama, written expressly for Mrs. Chanfrau, and previously performed here under another title, "Was She Right, a Question for Women" by Mr. Clifton W. Tayleure ...
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Cast: Was she right: Emily Steadman, afterwards Lady Presbury: Henrietta Chanfrau, Bella Steadman: Miss Ada Monk, Mrs. Estelle Rushton: Miss Amy Egberts, Minnie Grey: Miss Belle Bailey, Betty Noakes: Miss Nellie Mabel, Dr. Clarance Walton: Mr. Frank Mordaunt, Jack Rudd: M.B. Polk, Sir Mark Presbury: T.F. Egberts, Mr. Steadman: G. Morton, Oscar Dodson, Esq.: C.H. Thompson, Dr. Gray: W.T. Dulanil, Wilson: A. Torriani, Jr., Little Reginald, aged 7: Little Nellie, Reginald Presbury, aged 18: Mr. A.Z. Chipman.

"Wednesday & Thursday, London Assurance. Friday and Saturday, Parted. Matinee Saturday. Sept. 27, Juvenile Mexican Opera Co.".

LC copy rehoused: 2015-01-12. Shelved in Oversize.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).